Are You Feeling Old?
Are you feeling old?
If not, consider this:
- The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980.
- The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
- They have no memory of a time before M-TV.
- “New Wave” is their PARENTS musical generation.
- Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols — are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.
- They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
- They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
- If they have heard the name “Oliver North,” it was probably as a losing Congessional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey history text’s reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.
- Black Monday 1987 is a significant to them as the Great Depression.
- Their world has always included AIDS.
- Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
- They see “Family Ties” as something middle aged ladies watch.
- They watched “Star Wars” years ago, when they were kids — on video.
- Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes.
- From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
- As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
- The oil crisis is history or which they probably know nothing — and why anyone WOULDN’T buy a suburban is beyond them.
- Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if they went to Catholic schools.
So, my superannuated friends, why don’t we all get together and feel obsolete over some Geritol Tea?
